Need drop receiver and receiver extension

lthrneck689 wrote:
What a drag! Oops - sorry! Haven't had a chance to practice yet. Thanks for sharing your experience!

It sounds scary and impossible to tow a vehicle 4-wheels-down but people do it all the time. Like j-d and I are recommending, get all set up, and then go to a shopping center and learn what works and what does not work for your rig and tow. Then apply what you learned out in the field. You will misjudge now and then and immediately need to unhook to get yourself out of a jamb. So learn to be quick with the unhooking process. I use extra strong locks (locked on both ends of the hoop, and key'd alike) instead of using standard "Quick Links" in two places to speed up the process. With my wife in the tow vehicle preparing it, and me outside, we can unhook and have her drive away in under 60 seconds.

Our first trip out west towing, I think I had to "emergency disconnect" 3 times during the trip. After 10 years towing, I always have an "emergency disconnect" situation one time in a 3 week trip and 5000 of miles. I can't recall a trip where I didn't have to. And of coarse it's always in the worst of places and often with the two vehicles near jack-knifed, so practice unhooking jack-knifed.

This last trip it was a doosey. I was attempting a "U" turn on a primitive dusty red power dirt road outside of Canyonlands NP. I had hoped to over-shoot the road without incident but when the front wheels climbed up, the tail of the motor home dug into the dirt so not only was I jack-knifed, but the thing was also twisted and uneven. It took some good wrestling with the tow bar to get the tow released. It didn't help having my wife verbally hitting me over the head with a frying pan. :)